Venom + Trample
Asked by MoFi 7 years ago
Hello! If I give deathtouch to a 6/6 trampler, then I know that when I attack I can assign 1 damage to a blocking creature and then 5 damage to its controller. But let's say I put Venom on a 6/6 trampler...Do I again only need to assign 1 damage to a blocking creature because that's all it needs to be killed? Or do I even need to assign ANY damage to the creature because it dies just from blocking mine and then its controller takes 6 damage? Thanks in advance.
Small correction: deathtouch does not cause lethal damage, but rather any amount of deathtouch damage is considered lethal for the purposes of damage assignment. Both lethal damage and deathtouch damage destroy creatures, but the former is due to rule 704.5g and the latter is 704.5h.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
You can use double square brackets around a card's name to link it. It's the easiest way to make sure everyone reading your question understands what's going on: Venom
No, Venom doesn't work this way. The reason trample and deathtouch have this interaction is because damage assignment with trample is based on "lethal damage" (damage equal to or greater than a creature's toughness, taking into account any other damage already marked on it), and having deathtouch means any nonzero amount of damage counts as "lethal damage". Venom's effect doesn't do anything with regards to damage assignment or "lethal damage", so it won't interact with trample in any special way.
February 24, 2017 2:07 p.m.